I have an 64GB LTE iPad 4 coming on November 23rd. I let you know when I get it. Looking to also get my wife an iPad mini here shortly.

I really don't know what else they can do to improve the 4th gen iPad, but I'd love to see Apple out do themselves.

For the move to the 5th gen, maybe adopt the Mini's styling? Stereo speakers, A7X, maybe work on the backlight tech to get the battery size down, make the whole thing a little thinner, a little lighter. Bump up the jam, er rather the storage, maybe finally get a 128GB option in there.

I have a 64GB LTE iPad 4 coming on November 23rd. I'll let you know when I get it. Looking to also get my wife an iPad mini here shortly.

Ugh, are they seriously releasing the iPad 4 LTE on Black Friday? My disdain for Apple has risen a slight bit for making me go out on that hellish day, 'cause I'll be damned if I'm not going to either go to Target and get 5% off or go to Best Buy and get 5% cash back!

Note: Target has a Black Friday deal on all 10" iPads. You get a... $50 (I think that's right) gift card with it and you can still get 5% off.

The biggest change will probably come from an upgraded screen. I've seen random acronyms thrown around the Internet (such as IGZO) that should help reduce the weight by reducing the ridiculous backlight needed for such a dense screen, which also shrinks the battery needed to power everything.

As for multi-user stuff, I would imagine that Apple has considered it, but there are quite a few questions that go along with implementing it. The biggest one is probably how do you handle other users? Google treated it like a computer and lets things run in the background. That isn't as much of a problem on iOS given the limited multi-tasking, but there's still background tasks remaining in memory. I would imagine that they would simply give preference to the current user's tasks over any other user's tasks or simply require logging in as another user to log any other users out. Most apps save their state to NAND anyway.

EDIT:

Some articles even seem to suggest IGZO as a done-deal for Apple, but when will we see another iPad refresh? Will Apple refresh it again in March or wait until October again?

The biggest change will probably come from an upgraded screen. I've seen random acronyms thrown around the Internet (such as IGZO) that should help reduce the weight by reducing the ridiculous backlight needed for such a dense screen, which also shrinks the battery needed to power everything.

As for multi-user stuff, I would imagine that Apple has considered it, but there are quite a few questions that go along with implementing it. The biggest one is probably how do you handle other users? Google treated it like a computer and lets things run in the background. That isn't as much of a problem on iOS given the limited multi-tasking, but there's still background tasks remaining in memory. I would imagine that they would simply give preference to the current user's tasks over any other user's tasks or simply require logging in as another user to log any other users out. Most apps save their state to NAND anyway.

EDIT:

Some articles even seem to suggest IGZO as a done-deal for Apple, but when will we see another iPad refresh? Will Apple refresh it again in March or wait until October again?

IGZO looks pretty sweet.
March update vs. next October... who knows? I'd love to wait for the 5 but I guess you can always play that game plus my iPad 1 is so old and slow.

I can definitely see Apple going with IGZO or something similar to it. I don't see them worrying too much about ramping up the battery life to obscene levels (10-11 hours now is pretty decent and acceptable), which means they can reduce the battery size to make the device lighter and thinner. The biggest complaint that I hear about the iPad now is the weight (1.5 pounds). It'd be great if they could get it close to a pound, but that would definitely be a difficult task.

Well, one thing to consider is that Apple products tend to keep their value. Even if you absolutely need to have a feature in the latest product, and you have the current generation one, then you can usually recoup a modest amount of the costs. I traded in my $700 iPad 2 for $420, which isn't too shabby for the rather low amount of effort that it took.

Being iPad-less is why I'm rather disgruntled over the late LTE-equipped iPad release.

Bought both; I have a wifi-only mini, and my wife owns the wifi-only iPad 4. Don't have the inclination to write a full/grammatically correct review.

Cliffs on iPad mini:
Pros: Very thin yet solid, feels good in hand, excellent battery life
Cons: Smart cover has "wiggle" to the "hinge", screen could use increased pixel density (noticeable graininess at arms length; FWIW my eyes have become accustomed to iPhone 4S PPI)
Commentary: Stereo speakers adequate. Facetime cameras adequate. While I do not have any scratches on my iPad, reports of iPhone5 scratches have me concerned. I am babying mine until a smart case is available. Perhaps a smart case will solve my "wiggly hinge" issue.
Things not attempted: rear camera photos (I use my iPhone for off-the-cuff shots or my Canon S100 when I care about image quality)

Edit: Will field any specific questions you have. But I should have been in bed hours ago so a reply won't be timely.

Ugh, are they seriously releasing the iPad 4 LTE on Black Friday? My disdain for Apple has risen a slight bit for making me go out on that hellish day, 'cause I'll be damned if I'm not going to either go to Target and get 5% off or go to Best Buy and get 5% cash back!

Note: Target has a Black Friday deal on all 10" iPads. You get a... $50 (I think that's right) gift card with it and you can still get 5% off.

That's when I'm scheduled to receive it. They're shipping it out I believe 5 days prior.

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I have had the Amazon Fire HD, 16 gb, since it came out and just this weekend got my hands on my new iPad 4th gen, 64 gb black.

So far I am enjoying both for different reasons. The iPad can be a substitute laptop while the Fire HD is more of a document reader that I can pocket. Pocketing the HD in my pants is very important to me and makes it so handy even at work using it for PDF documents. The Fire HD screen is very nice and readable.

I can't say much so far about the iPad since it is so new to me. The screen is great and the responsiveness is even better. I got a Zagg Flex keyboard for both and this works very well.

For the Fire HD I got the standard Amazon offered case and this keeps it very light. It got the Pong case for my iPad. The Pong case is very nice as well and keeps the weight down for the iPad with some protection. Looking forward to getting into the iPad and seeing what it can do for me. This weekend has been mostly setting it up with the apps that I want to use with it.